WASHINGTON ( DC News Now ) –- One year after her daughter’s murder, Linda Tates said she still carries the weight of her death with her every day.
“I’m just mad, angry. I just walk around carrying a load of hurt. It’s an indescribable feeling that I have,” said Tates.
Her daughter, 40-year-old Tangia Tates-Littles, was shot to death on Sept. 25, 2023.
One year later, no arrests have been made in the case.
“I pray every day, every night that I get a call from the Metropolitan Police or the detectives telling me they have found the person who murdered my daughter so she can have justice, and I can have closure,” said her mother.
Mother pleads for answers more than five months after her daughter’s murder
According to Tates, her daughter was leaving their home on Finch Street SE at around 11:44 p.m., when someone started shooting. Tates ran outside to find her daughter bleeding in the street. She laid on top of her to try and stop the bleeding.
“Every day I go to work in the morning, and I can just see it while I’m driving. I just have this vision of the night of that incident. It’s going to be a long while before this vision goes away,” she said.